things we need to be asking in this pivotal election so to help us break through the madness i'm joined now by mark crispin miller professor of media at n.y.u. and author of ford again the real case for electoral reform mark thank you for coming on thanks for having me on i have fled to brooklyn from manhattan in order to have flushing toilets and electricity so you know i ordinarily be in the studio but i couldn't do that today no problem i really appreciate i know things are really crazy over there in new york so i you know mark last time we talked we talked mostly about the last the last couple lections and the extensive voting fraud with those let's talk about this election i mean going off what i just said what do you think about these new software patches that are going to be installed well there it's very alarming and that's not the only story like that one story that has gotten a surprising amount of media attention also has to do with ohio and the romney campaign through a closely held. hedge fund called sole america. mitt romney's

family it is he has wife his brother and his son tagg. majority in investors in h. g. capital and capital owns heart interest civic which makes voting machines. machines that will be used to count the votes in two populous ohio counties hamilton and williams hamilton county being where cincinnati is so in essence what we have is voting machines made by a company that has three out of five of its board members from h. i t. capitol these are romney fundraisers with a controlling interest in him in a in a in a company that will help to count the vote on election day in a state where the election has historically been stolen already by republicans this is so shocking that it has actually helped to push this long suppressed story. into the mainstream even fox nineteen the fox owned news

station in cincinnati get a terrific report on this while the new york times and others as usual have ignored it but this is as you say in your intro precisely the kind of thing that people should be paying attention to regardless of their party affiliation or even if they have no party affiliation because what we're really talking about is the integrity of the vote yeah i mean ben swan the did cover this extensively which was an excellent report but i mean that's as a local fox affiliate how sad is it that this huge story that could determine the election down to these counties or wherever these voting machines are that romney is invested in pretty much or that they invested in romney rather how sad is that they felt that no media is really putting this on the front page mark. esquire his job or that. the atlantic is dealt with it i have to pull back for a moment and tell your viewers about an absolutely stunning cover story in the

latest issue of harper's the november issue how to rig an election by victoria collier who is a real stalwart election integrity activist this is a masterpiece this article alone only begins to scratch the surface it is must it is must reading and that piece helped push the atlantic esquire the christian science monitor and other considerably considerable media to pay attention to this story at long last well go at it right now that the national media has as usual shockingly enough ignore this very important knows it's even worse than that because now again as we discussed last time it's the left media that's actually not just ignore this kind of story but as is making fun of it is deep bunking it think progress which is a questionable name in my eyes and alter net have now joined n.b.c.'s chuck todd n.b.c.'s elections expert. and laughing off concerns about election fraud through

electronic means as conspiracy theory this is just staggering to me i can't really imagine why these self professed left liberal outlets would do such a thing unless it's because they're tied to the democratic party and weirdly enough as we also discussed last time the democrats seem not to want to discuss this issue i think because they believe the telling the people the truth about this kind of thing will somehow depress voter turnout oh that's ridiculous mark i mean but let's talk about you just hit upon an extremely important point in what you just said that the media dismisses things that are too controversial as can spirits if they're it's a pejorative term that really just shuts down the dialogue talk a little bit more about this term and how it's used to manipulate the narrative. yeah well it's i've done a lot of research on this very interesting when i came out with my book fooled again in two thousand and five i ran into that brick wall conspiracy theory that

almost no reviews no interviews and that's the fate that i shared with the others who tried to tell the truth about this issue so i looked into the history of that phrase you know i wanted to know when exactly was it that conspiracy theory became the cudgel of choice used by the press in this country to inhibit all discussion of inconvenient stories and to my surprise i found that before the late sixty's the phrase was almost never used by the press in this country it was only in the late sixty's that we first started to see the media routinely use that phrase to shut down inconvenient discussion and it started around the kennedy assassination it started in response to some books that raised questions about the warren commission report and they raised questions from various different points on the political spectrum you know one of these books back to the theory that fidel castro had

kennedy killed another simply raised other questions and so on. but it's notable that that's the moment when this kind of dismissal began and there is a declassified cia memo from i think it's april first one thousand nine hundred sixty seven sent out to station chiefs worldwide how to deal with the problem of these books and the memo is very explicit it says we must use our propaganda assets and friends in the media not so that's a probate and quote to discredit the work of these conspiracy theorists by making the following five arguments some of those arguments abbi i hear today around any attempt to discuss election fraud for example well if this were really going on someone would have blown you would know about it yeah exactly well and all of that i mean you've also talked about something else really significant mark that no one touches at all all across the board i mean and really every media establishment as

a nine eleven alternative theories and i don't know that i mean just basically question the government narrative there's so many anomalies that obviously don't fit into what the government tells us happened i mean why is this event which is this is the premise to end this war abroad the police day roshon of civil liberties here at home such a taboo subject to broach i just don't understand it it really is a conspiracy theory they are talking about well it is the nine eleven truth people who have run into the same problem and it isn't even you know alternative theories of what happened it's raising any question whatsoever right about the government's account i mean if you know that the collapse of building seven is this was physically impossible there's no explanation for it that that collapse wasn't even mentioned in the nine eleven commission report even if you raise the question you are you're tarred as a conspiracy theorist and that is a career killer for anybody in the press left liberal or corporate so those people

have a very good reason to stay mum now nine eleven and election fraud i think a problem. the most important of the stories that have been suppressed through this through this kind of subtle intimidation but there's really a lot of stories that over the years have been dismissed on these grounds and they always have to do with. you know i suppose you could say that they always have to do with with the expansion of power by the authorities you know. the fact that the cia was you know involved in drug dealers and working in the inner cities gary winnick broke that story he was assailed all over the place a conspiracy theorist you know the crash of flight eight hundred t.w.a. flight eight hundred over really atlantic ocean i'm second list these stories and of course i will sound myself like a conspiracy theorist but one has to you know as a matter of intellectual self-respect and i think of true patriotism we're obliged

to raise reasonable questions right about these issues i mean if we care about our freedoms is as you implied a moment ago we have to we have to ask questions about nine eleven since it was used as the basis for the past so startling that no one even entertains any questions i mean and there are so so many questions about this unfortunately we're going to have to wrap it up we're out of time i really want to get into so much more of the on again mark they decide for taking the time and definitely stay warm out there and stay dry ok thanks for having me. if you like what you see so far go to our youtube channel at youtube dot com just breaking the set and subscribe check out our facebook pages facebook dot com slash breaking the set another nature of the internet as a hate is going to hate and trolls going to troll but if you're the more intelligent minded feel free to write me and let me know what you think and if you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin and i want to take a break from my preaching but they too may hear the theory that mainstream media

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know what you know marsland never seen anything like this i'm selling the set. i want to talk to about now vent that happened on christmas day two thousand and nine do you remember omar. talab or better known as the underwear bomber the man or tried to blow up northwest airlines flight two fifty three bound from amsterdam to detroit well whom our story made international headlines the guy pleaded guilty t.s.a. beefed up security with body scanners nobody died case closed right actually not so much you see with omar's case there's been a number of instances where government operatives for oil terrorist plots the entrapment so could there be more to this case as well that we're not being told about. yes a trial date has been sad but it was actually more interesting to hear from a couple of the passengers who showed up here at court today who have

a very interesting theory about what really happened the u.s. government scored him through security without a passport and we believe gave him an intentionally defective bomb. so my guest today was a passenger on board flight two fifty three joining me now is attorney and also u.s. congressional candidate for the seventh district in michigan kurt haskell. thank you and i'm good thank you so much for coming on journal so kurt i just wanted to get into the story as i think you know a lot of people don't realize you're part of the story we've heard so much from the media it's really very different from what you say actually happen that day can you walk us through your experience of what happened to you before you got on the flight and after. well you know it's a full weeks one and i've thrown in you know our time or more. i win some you know it's not happening before we boarded i want to go have the eye trying to how can she knew you know why did you. say something well that's what i did but i

soon found out the f.b.i. wasn't interested in my story and shortly thereafter the government through the media continued. when i. witnessed personally and led me to. a two year long investigation that i conducted myself putting approximately two thousand hours in my own time investigating what really happened and why my wife and i almost lost our lives. and at the end of. that investigation i determined that this was actually a stand now parade shing where are you under cover u.s. government agents for. the underwear bomber. lack we got new york so therefore could not you know it's blown up and couriers say you know you're playing cards at your wife i recall you telling me earlier and someone as scored the underwear

bomber onto the flight without a passport. yeah that's correct that's what i was speaking of a minute ago you know i witnessed some games before we boarded and you know i went to get the i would get some information and. you know how we. should be one of the most wanted men in the world operates through this plot but you know when it's an interesting one it's their mission so. you know that being an attorney i question why and let me tell you my own best. kirk were you ever did you ever question you know anything else that the government had said before this happened i mean were you really political and did this prompt you're now congressional ron. no i'm no no i i was just kind of living my own life not going to these things and all and. knowing you're not proud of my congressional run here what prompted my

congressional run was the redistricting not occurred in michigan i mean john dingell so strict who is running member of congress now for over fifty years and even though i wanted to run for office before for many years i want to wrong i would never think of running john dingell and. redistricting occurred earlier this year quoting me into against tim walberg who i think it's a very vulnerable incumbent and that's what led me to run. and so you say you know you say that the government this is pretty much a sting operation and that clip that we saw earlier i didn't show the full clip but you were telling that fox affiliate that you think it's made to expand you know the domestic policies these these body scanners and all these airports is that is that what you think this was about kurt well andy it's a sting a legitimate sting operation you're rushed the person reports the plane you don't

let you know. you know it once and a device that can get exploded but it did cause a fire going almost took our plane down so it's. going to conduct a legitimate sting operation near us the man seen as he boards the plane before you had a chance you're in danger of the license you're on your dating not gas and that's not what occurred here and you know i have a whole. a great deal of. forte's one i'm seeing here for two thousand dollars my own time so we don't have time to go knowledge but. you know so that leads me to believe it was done for other reasons letting him fly across the ocean only. by former detroit on christmas day obviously that's a much bigger media story they can use for other purposes you know a man or a while talking to board a plane. i mean yeah i definitely remember the media hype about it and has it

caused you has this whole experience i mean you were there you saw it go down you saw the media manipulate your story completely omitted it in a lot of instances does this do you now question other things i mean now that we know that pretty much every for oil plot is really just f.b.i. entrapment it just seems like there really isn't a legitimate threat here do you question other aspects of the war on terror and other past instances where there have been you know like nine eleven or or anything else like that well. i guess if you put yourself in my position how could you not. read through it it's not something that i'm hearing. something that some crazy person is making up in on believing something i witnessed with my own eyes and i lived through it i seen we've got remaining. in the story accurately report into that happen i've seen the media run slow. how can i not

questioning. everything you know what do you think of the media's complicity and the silence. well. you know i don't know what to think of it because you know and i understand the media is considered showing near certain instrument government and there is no against to back them up you know it's evidence to back up what i'm saying much you mean circumstantial and the hard truth is it's being held by the government never released i.e. the airport security video that would completely programs that if you. were going make it of the media you know i don't know because you know before this happened i thought the media would do investigative reporting on stories like this where there are different. you know different theories on what happened but some from the media want do they just hates what the government runs with so i have a completely different community media now than he did you know before the snap and

they pretty much are a mouthpiece for government propaganda career but really quickly to wrap it up i just wanted you to say where can people find out more about your congressional run and i want to thank you for you know taking truth to power and really stepping up to the plate here being the change yeah. i am running for congress and hopefully people will see me for who i am which seems american citizen will stands up for what's right will represent people and not corporations. or your wealthy and so learn more about me you can go to my website for ask go for congress stuck in a room where we have your election a few days away and hopefully some of your listeners will donate to my campaign so that we can push this campaign over the top on many a very close race right now with the new and we stablish many. and you know a lot of truth loving people and so loving people would love to see me in office

absolutely current thank you so much for your time for coming on and for running. well. you can wait to be back on the show and. your half after a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami left the fukushima nuclear power plant in japan severely damaged the plant's authorities are still scrambling to find space to store the tens of thousands of tons of highly contaminated water that was used to cool the broken reactors and the problem is far from contained the water is stored in gigantic tanks surrounding the daiichi power plant and tepco the tokyo electric power company has been working to clear more room for a volume of water that's expected to more than triple and the next three years find a place to store over two hundred thousand tons of radioactive water is no easy task especially with the added factor that japan is an island nation highly

susceptible to earthquakes and tsunamis and if the situation in japan isn't daunting enough it becomes more complicated when you throw in the fact that nuclear authorities are engaged in tangled with the kusa japan's most notorious crime syndicate that's right according to japanese government sources that you kusa has a long history of involvement in japan's nuclear industry that dates back over a decade undercover reporters have exposed tepco payoffs to the kusa to keep quiet about safety issues and attention scandals look we heard you know that tepco is corrupt as hell in fact they knew that the reactors were faulty and they even falsified documents in the past to downplay the poor conditions of the reactors years before the disaster so who is tepco having work on the disaster cleanup well unfortunately a group of veteran engineers called the skilled veterans corps for fukushima has

been denied access to clean up the radioactive mess. skilled veterans corps is made up of seven hundred plus retired workers from the fukushima plant many of them elders who expect to die of natural causes long before the long term effects of radiation exposure could make them sick aside from the fact these men are willing to lay down their lives for the cleanup effort i find it mind boggling to leave the tepco is the nine then access starts to make sense however when you take into account the outsourcing of organized crime labor by tepco the arrest of a coup is a boss who allegedly supplied workers for reconstruction efforts is helping to shine a light on the whole operation japanese law enforcement officials have disclosed that starting in may of last year gang members were sent to the damage reactors they perform cleanup work and began rebuilding damaged areas subcontractor for tepco then awarded the extra hazard pay to the crime boss and

a portion of the money was used to settle debts with the crime syndicate. now while you might be thinking that gang members and criminals going in to help clean up a nuclear disaster sounds like a good idea think about it this way these workers are being sacrificed to this job because they are indebted to the mob and they're desperate for work and many of them have little to no experience being sent to what they're doing think about what i just said this may be the most important aspect of all the nuclear disaster resulting from the read major nuclear meltdowns is unfolding by the minute and who sent to work on it gang members with no experience the clean up efforts must be worked on properly or could result in the spread of eighty five times the amount of dangerous c s one thirty seven isotope that the turnover of disaster sent around the world listen guys this is insane if the potential for global catastrophe isn't

opening people's eyes to the technological insanity that is nuclear energy then i don't know what will the idea of nuclear energy does not account for human error mother nature's wrath and the possibility of storing the waste we clearly can't count on the industry or the government to look out for the people of this planet we are the ones who need to demand an end to this madness. could use would those fifteen goods. count. kilograms of rice one seldom flatbreads. but one has to bring

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